Waste Management - Other Websites of Interest

Governments

Austria

• Austrian Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family: http://www.lebensministerium.at
  
• Federal Environment Agency: http://www.ubavie.gv.at/
  Search " Umweltsituation" and "Abfall" (Waste)

Australia

• Environment Australia: http//www.deh.gov.au/
  Search "Hazardous Waste"

Canada

• Environment Canada: http://www.ec.gc.ca/wastes_e.html

Denmark

• Danish Environmental Protection Agency: www.mst.dk

Finland

• Environmental Administration: http://www.ymparisto.fi/eng/

France

• Ministry of the Ecology and Sustainable Development: http://www.environnement.gouv.fr/
• Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maitrise de l'Energie: http://www.ademe.fr/
• French regulation related to the Environmental ProtectionInspectorate (French only): http://aida.ineris.fr

Germany

• Ministry of the Environment: http://www.bmu.de (English version: http://www.bmu.de/english/fset800.php )
• Federal Environment Agency: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/

Ireland

• Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.ie/

Japan

• Environment Agency: http://www.env.go.jp/en/index.html

The Netherlands

• Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment: http://www.vrom.nl/ (English version: http://www.vrom.nl/international )
• Waste Management Administration (Uitvoering Afvalbeheer): http://www.uitvoeringafvalbeheer.nl

Norway

• Norwegian Pollution Control Authority: http://www.sft.no/
• Ministry of the Environment: http://odin.dep.no/odin

Spain

• Ministry of Environment of Spain: www.msa.es

Sweden

• Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.environ.se/

Switzerland

• Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape: http://www.umwelt-schweiz.ch/

United Kingdom

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA): http://www.defra.gov.uk
• Environment Agency: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk
• Waste and Resources Action Programme (this is a government funded body set up topromote the development of markets for recovered materials): www.wrap.org.uk

United States

• United States Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov/osw/index.htm

Organisations

• Secretariat of the Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): http://www.basel.int
• The European Commission: http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment
• The European Commission - DG XI
  Environment, Nuclear Energy and Civil Protection: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg11/index_en.htm
• The European Commission - DG I - Trade Shipment of non-hazardous waste ("green" list waste) to certain non-OECD countries: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg01/waste.htm
• The European Topic Centre on Waste: http://www.etc-waste.int/